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Gman5852 · 04/30/2012, 01:58 pm

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Originally Posted by tobar

Something else that's odd. Hershel tells Shawn to go inside and check on his sister. Hershel has seven kids, three sons and four daughters. The youngest of which are twins. So wouldn't it make sense for him to have said check on your sisters?

Obviously they couldn't have portrayed the whole family but where were Arnold and Billy? They're definitely old enough to be helping around the farm. Just seems like it would have been a good idea to include some dialog explaining where they were.

Hershal said they had plenty of chores as it was. I just find it wierd no one in the family reacted to seeing Hershal run in, look for a shotgun, run out, and scream "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE AND NEVER COME BACK!" I'm being told that didn't sent off a single alarm in their heads?

*Vainamoinen* · 04/30/2012, 01:59 pm

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Originally Posted by tobar

Something else that's odd. Hershel tells Shawn to go inside and check on his sister. Hershel has seven kids, three sons and four daughters. The youngest of which are twins. So wouldn't it make sense for him to have said check on your sisters?

Obviously they couldn't have portrayed the whole family but where were Arnold and Billy? They're definitely old enough to be helping around the farm. Just seems like it would have been a good idea to include some dialog explaining where they were.

I was thinking about this before the game was even released. Showing us ONLY Shawn was a tad bit disappointing, while giving us the whole family would have been MUCH too distracting.

An explanation for the mentioning of "sister" instead of "sisters" could be that there's a particular sister which might need more attention than others at the time - maybe she's ill or something.

BTW, the Shawn's death canon violation... THAT's the biggie I was looking for.

tobar · 04/30/2012, 02:11 pm

It could be explained that Shawn volunteered to go into town to get some medicine for one of his sisters that got sick. But that's never stated in the game so it's conjecture. Would have been better dialog than that guff about their neighbor Breckon's mare.

Still no explanation for the absence of Arnold and Billy.

WabbitTwaks · 04/30/2012, 02:37 pm

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How about clementine being 8 years old in first grade, that has to be a mistake surely?

Unless she got held back for hitting other kids with a hammer or something, or maybe she's "special" like duck.

Not all children begin school at the same age. The South is notorious for this.

Chillforce · 04/30/2012, 03:50 pm

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Not all children begin school at the same age. The South is notorious for this.

I can second this. I would have been 8 in first grade if I had a January-May birthday.

andsoitgoes · 04/30/2012, 09:39 pm

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I can second this. I would have been 8 in first grade if I had a January-May birthday.

My daughters are January kids, oldest in their class, and are only 6/7 in 1st grade.

There may be some changes in laxity for the rules, but something tells me it was just an oversight on the writers part. As with most of these kinds of things, I think it comes down to that.

And to think the headache it took to get this stupid account working to just post this. I'm an idiot.

WabbitTwaks · 04/30/2012, 09:43 pm

*bites his tongue*

*Icedhope* · 04/30/2012, 10:20 pm

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Originally Posted by tobar

Easy way to explain this. Maybe hershel felt a pulse after Kenny's group left and decided to try and bandage and after him turning. Into the barn he went.

big-augen · 05/01/2012, 12:13 am

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Looks like Hershel has to become a better liar, too!

Cornson · 05/01/2012, 04:18 am

at the end at the motor in, if you just stay and lesson to the radio it says that Atlanta have been temporally downgraded to a 8 but as soon as you talk to Glen its a catastrophe 9.

flava · 05/01/2012, 05:22 am

I thought it was a bit odd to see Hershel to shoot the zombies expecially knowing his stance on that in the comics. Either he's really hypocritical or it's a plot hole.

Isterio · 05/01/2012, 05:46 am

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I thought it was a bit odd to see Hershel to shoot the zombies expecially knowing his stance on that in the comics. Either he's really hypocritical or it's a plot hole.

Good point ... he seems to be much more "reasonable" in the game as in the show/comic. He does shoot them to protect his own ... I wonder, why he would change that ...

toothiersnow · 05/01/2012, 05:51 am

unless hes just thinking hes shooting tresspassers/agressors, not 100% on the US's stance of shooting tresspassers but its happened a few times over this side of the pond were a farmer has shot people without even considering they were zombies...

Isterio · 05/01/2012, 06:00 am

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Originally Posted by toothiersnow

unless hes just thinking hes shooting tresspassers/agressors, not 100% on the US's stance of shooting tresspassers but its happened a few times over this side of the pond were a farmer has shot people without even considering they were zombies...

So he is shooting living people (trespassers), but he then gathers zombies, instead of shooting them??? hmmmm ... your logic is flawed :P

toothiersnow · 05/01/2012, 06:01 am

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So he is shooting living people (trespassers), but he then gathers zombies, instead of shooting them??? hmmmm ... your logic is flawed :P

he is shooting two people who has just attacked his son while he is still very unaware about the full extent of the zombie invasion! but i do quite agree, my logic does seem a little... sketchy at best lol

Isterio · 05/01/2012, 06:05 am

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he is shooting two people who has just attacked his son while he is still very unaware about the full extent of the zombie invasion! but i do quite agree, my logic does seem a little... sketchy at best lol

Ah I see ... you mean that he only shoots them, because they're an immediate threat and he doesn't really understand yet that they're only "sick" people, who might be cured of their hunger for flesh and deadness.

{edit} some spelling errors... not all, I guess

toothiersnow · 05/01/2012, 06:06 am

yeah, thats pretty much what i was meaning lol

WabbitTwaks · 05/01/2012, 06:44 am

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Originally Posted by Isterio

Good point ... he seems to be much more "reasonable" in the game as in the show/comic. He does shoot them to protect his own ... I wonder, why he would change that ...

I think it comes down to how his son is involved in the two situations.

When he was trying to protect his son. That warrants shooting. No hesitation. Kill them before they kill Shawn.

Later, in the comic, his son has turned. In Hershel's mind, by some miracle his son is alive again. He thinks, "Maybe everyone else is just sick too?" So now he views anyone with the same "disease" as Shawn, as alive, and possibly curable. He believes, "If they can be cured, you shouldn't be killing them."

Isterio · 05/01/2012, 07:08 am

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Originally Posted by WabbitTwaks

I think it comes down to how his son is involved in the two situations.

When he was trying to protect his son. That warrants shooting. No hesitation. Kill them before they kill Shawn.

Later, in the comic, his son has turned. In Hershel's mind, by some miracle his son is alive again. He thinks, "Maybe everyone else is just sick too?" So now he views anyone with the same "disease" as Shawn, as alive, and possibly curable. He believes, "If they can be cured, you shouldn't be killing them."

You might be right

Superfluid · 05/01/2012, 09:31 am

One major inconsistency with the Comic Canon is the timing of the breakout of the apocalypse. The zombie plague started in October in the books. In the game, the message on the answering machine mentions Spring Break. So the timing is totally off.

http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Walking_Dead

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04/30/2012, 02:11 pm	#43
tobar Blue Blazer irregular Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 694	It could be explained that Shawn volunteered to go into town to get some medicine for one of his sisters that got sick. But that's never stated in the game so it's conjecture. Would have been better dialog than that guff about their neighbor Breckon's mare. Still no explanation for the absence of Arnold and Billy.

05/01/2012, 04:18 am	#50
Cornson Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Vejle, Denmark Posts: 79	at the end at the motor in, if you just stay and lesson to the radio it says that Atlanta have been temporally downgraded to a 8 but as soon as you talk to Glen its a catastrophe 9.

05/01/2012, 05:22 am	#51
flava Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 12	I thought it was a bit odd to see Hershel to shoot the zombies expecially knowing his stance on that in the comics. Either he's really hypocritical or it's a plot hole.

05/01/2012, 05:51 am	#53
toothiersnow Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 264	unless hes just thinking hes shooting tresspassers/agressors, not 100% on the US's stance of shooting tresspassers but its happened a few times over this side of the pond were a farmer has shot people without even considering they were zombies...

05/01/2012, 06:06 am	#57
toothiersnow Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 264	yeah, thats pretty much what i was meaning lol

05/01/2012, 09:31 am	#60
Superfluid Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 7	One major inconsistency with the Comic Canon is the timing of the breakout of the apocalypse. The zombie plague started in October in the books. In the game, the message on the answering machine mentions Spring Break. So the timing is totally off. http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Walking_Dead